The Book of the Illustrious Henries

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By John Capgrave

Translated by Francis
Charles Hingeston

Published 1858
Longman, Brown, Green
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285 pages

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Nov 30, 2005

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Apulia - Page 43
In the same month he entered Apulia with a large He enters kingdom to the Romans, which was destroyed by them. And in the same year the sun was ...
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Norwich - Page 207
that which I have written is according to my own calculation, which long since I extracted from Herbert, bishop of Norwich,' a most learned man. ...
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Gloucester - Page 139
Then the (luke of Burgundy' sent a message to the king that he purposed to come and confer with him, on condition that the duke of Gloucester should ...
more pages: 103 136 231

Canterbury - Page 127
He was thereupon and there publicly condemned, under the presidency of the venerable Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, for his heretical wickedness, ...
more pages: 58 76 80

Lancaster - Page 187
of Lancaster, all received their titles at the same time with him, the first four when be was created Earl of Derby in 1337; the last when he was ...
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Mayence - Page 31
Also Henry, who had been elected to the see of Magdeburg, but had been rejected by the Emperor, he consecrated, and arranged for his return to Mayence ...
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Northampton - Page 77
Becket left Northampton on the 19th of November, the day after the Jut day of the Second Council which was held there shortly after the Council of ...
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Rouen - Page 61
And, having returned to Rouen amid the blasts of trumpets and the chanting of the clergy, he gave praise unto God and our Lord. ...
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Leicester - Page 100
But the mayor of the city, fearing the deceit and treachery of certain persons, gave notice to the earl of Leicester of the king's approach, ...
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Oxford - Page 95
and finding that the king of England was useless and incapable of attending to the affairs of the state, assembled together in Oxford against their ...
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Cambridge - Page 153
The second was built at Cambridge, in honour of S. Nicholas the Pope, of the foundation of which latter, and the king's presence at the laying of the ...
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Rome - Page 36
When the emperor was on his way to Rome, the Pope had made a certain compact with him to the effect that the emperor should resign to him the right of ...
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York - Page 72
Stephen himself died about Westminster by Roger, Archbishop twelve months after, and was buried of York. This was done by his in the Abbey Church of ...
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Dover - Page 138
Afterwards the emperor, accompanied by the king, returned to Dover and to Calais, on his way to his own country. ...
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London - Page 100
And it was told prince Edward that the city of London was altogether destitute of counsel and succours and that he would certainly take it in case he ...
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Toulouse - Page 75
In the previous year he bad claimed Toulouse in the right of Eleanor of Guienne, his wife, and had laid siege to it unsuccessfully. ...
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Bristol - Page 108
And, having collected a vast army, they made their way towards Bristol, where the disturbers of the peace were beheaded, and those evil advisers of ...
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Windsor - Page 153
The first of these has just been erected at Eton, near Windsor, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary.' The second was built at Cambridge, ...
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Milan - Page 106
And when he found that the Lord of Virtues, to wit, the duke of Milan, had taken offence against the friars on account of some quarrel which had ...
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Salisbury - Page 60
the good queen Maud, married the daughter of the duke of Louvain, compelled the bishop of Salisbury,' who was clad in his sacred robes, and wishing to ...
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Paris - Page 188
In the presence of the king of France he accused the duke of Brunswick of fraud and treason, and in the city of Paris encountering him in a duel, ...
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Warwick - Page 136
England. to Calais shortly after Easter' with a retinue of one thousand men, and was there received with due reverence by the earl of Warwick.3 At ...
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Venice - Page 104
was given to him by the lords of the country was not as friendly as he had wished, he left them and proceeded to Venice, and from thence to Jerusalem. ...
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Huntingdon - Page 206
and Huntingdon, and Hereford, Nicholas, than whom was no one of more handsome person, nor in manners was he very dissimilar from his person. ...
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Portsmouth - Page 54
Accordingly he immediately collected a vast army, and landed at Portsmouth. Nevertheless, through the mediation of the more prudent men of the realm, ...
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Salerno - Page 37
(as is reported) on the back of a camel, and led him away in an ignominious manner and committed him to perpetual imprisonment in a cave near Salerno. ...
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Brunswick - Page 188
In the presence of the king of France he accused the duke of Brunswick of fraud and treason, and in the city of Paris encountering him in a duel, ...
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Derby - Page 187
In mature age, from being only earl of Derby, he was He is made created duke of Lancaster. Duke. In the cismontane regions, and especially in the wars ...
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Exeter - Page 135
For the earl of Dorset, who was afterwards created duke of Exeter, had gained this victory over fifteen thousand French, though he had with him ...
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Magdeburg - Page 31
Also Henry, who had been elected to the see of Magdeburg, but had been rejected by the Emperor, he consecrated, and arranged for his return to Mayence ...

Cologne - Page 32
‘° having resigned all the ensigns of royalty to his son, and having lost the support of all the Princes, had gone down the Rhine to Cologne, ...
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Southampton - Page 137
1416. and thence hastened to burn the king's vessels at Southampton. When the king learnt this he dissolved Parliament; the duke of Holland returned ...
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Le Mans - Page 82
He was buried first at Le Mans, and afterwards at Rouen. A certain poet has written of him as follows:— “Our country's honour; glory of the world; ...
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Granada - Page 186
Hence at first in Prussia, then at Rhodes, next at Cyprus, and many places in the East; then passing over Granada and ...

Stafford - Page 187
for the most part these noble earls: — The earl of Northampton,' the earl of Suffolk,' the earl of Salisbury,3 and the earl of Stafford.4 ...

Caen - Page 247
Caen, the corpse of Henry I., of England, ii carried from Rouen to Caen, 68; reference.
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Burgos - Page 94
1253. king of Spain,' to marry Eleanor, his sister, at Burgos; and he not only obtained his desire, but was also presented with a knight's belt by the ...

Brescia - Page 30
After this again, many excommunicated bishops and promoters of sedition assembling at Brescia, elected Guipert, bishop of Ravenna, to be Pope, ...

Pembroke - Page 102
Another sister of this man, also by the lady Blanch, was married first to the earl of Pembroke, and afterwards to John de Holland, the brother of king ...

Thetford - Page 199
Afterwards when he came to Icklingham, at a spot where a mill-house somewhat narrowed the road-way, between Cambridge and Thetford, he met lord Thomas ...
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Athens - Page 16
NSZISZIUII. recorded of him : — At the time when he was emment at Athens for his philosophical studies, he saw in a dream two very lovely women, ...

Bury - Page 200
however, having been England: — “ Anothir capteyn was captured by the instrumentality of there fast be Bury, thei cleped Jon this Spenser, ...

Leeds - Page 137
When the king learnt this he dissolved Parliament; the duke of Holland returned to his own parts, the emperor was escorted in state to Leeds' Castle ...

Plymouth - Page 120
The Bretons burn Plymouth, which deed the English speedily avenge. “In these dayes certeyn pilgrymes of Ynglond cam fro Jerusalem, but erred in her ...

Kendal - Page 117
daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl England in the year 1403, and earl of Kent, and widow of John Beau• of Kendal and Duke of Bedford in fort, ...

Dublin - Page 89
and with the assistance of the archbishop of Dublin, and Gualo, the legate of the Apostolic See, (who nevertheless did not lay their hands upon him, ...

Naples - Page 43
In the first year of his rule he invaded the kingdom of His dinSicily, and conquered the country as far as Naples in the ¿ space of three months. ...

Abingdon - Page 241
Abingdon, the Abbey of, founded by King Edgar, 155. Abington, Edmund of, Archbishop of Canter. bury, confirms Edward, son of Henry IlL, ...

Aix - Page 241
Aix.la.Chapeile, a priest receives Henry III. (Emperor), when a boy, at, 22; he is married to the daughter of Conrad the Salique at, 16; Richard, ...

Bern - Page 169
They anlaus, his son, folowid his fader swered him,—A prince of the lund steppes; and for envye his brothir of Bern, wrongfully slayn be his bro. ...

Nottingham - Page 103
earl of Arundel;' Sir Thomas de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick; Sir Thomas Mowbray, earl of Nottingham¿3 The said forgotten that John of Gaunt was married ...

Jerusalem - Page 174
He begat also Hugh, who in the great troubles at Jerusalem shone most conspicuous among the other nobles; where also he met his death in a glorious ...
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Berkeley - Page 114
Asaph; John, abbot of Glastonbury; Thomas, earl of Gloucester; Thomas, lord de Berkeley; Thomas Erpingham and Thomas Grey, knights, and John Thirnyng, ...

Oxford, MS - Page 242
All Souls' College, Oxford, MS. at, 225. Aiphonso III. or IX., King of Castile, sends ambassadors to the Congress held at West-minster by Henry IL, ...